Although his article was slightly flawed¹, it was generally a very powerful piece promoting Smalltalk in an eloquent fashion. It certainly moved me.

Without that SmartBear article, Smalltalk would’ve likely drowned in obscurity and the world would’ve been denied a great technological treasure. Today, the word on Smalltalk is ringing through the halls of Quora and cascading through Twitter and Facebook and Google+ and LinkedIn. It’s well-known to readers of Hacker News and Medium and Reddit. I wonder if Blake Watson realizes what he started: something of a Smalltalk revolution!

I thank Blake Watson from the bottom of my heart. You see, one person can make a difference.

[1] The article has a slight flaw regarding the Smalltalk vs JavaScript example. The JavaScript code sample is misleading. A better example follows…

Lets generate a set of lowercase ASCII alphabet characters. In Smalltalk, you would do it thus: